'62i] General Monthly Meeting [June 8, 



GENERAL MONTHLY MEETING, 



Monday, June 3, 1918. 



Sir James Crichton-Browxe, M.D. F.R.S., Treasurer 

 and Vice-President, in the Chair. 



The Chairman announced the decease of His Grace the Duke of 

 Northumberland, K.G., President, on May 14. 



The following Resolution of condolence was submitted to the 

 Members, and unanimously passed : — 



The Members of the Royal Institution of Great Britain, in General Monthly 

 Meeting assembled, desire to express to His Grace the Duke of Northumberland 

 their sympathy with him and his family in the loss which they, as well as the 

 Royal Institution and the Country at large, have sustained by the death of his 

 father, the late Duke. 



They desire to record their grateful sense of the invaluable services rendered 

 to the Royal Institution during the late Duke's Membership of 34 years ; a 

 period in which he held office as Manager on four occasions, and as the 

 President for 19 years. His Grace's active interest in the progress of Science, 

 which it is the object of the Royal Institution to promote, together with His 

 Grace's nobility of character, have lent distinction to its proceedings during an 

 eventful period of its history. 



The Duke of Northumbierland, 

 Arnold Jacob Cohen Stuart, 

 William Rintoul, 

 were elected Members of the Royal Institution. 



Keport from the Managers, June ;>, 1918 : — . 



The Managers reported that the Fullerian Professorship of Chemistry would 

 become vacant on June 7, and that in pursuance of the Deed of Endowment 

 the election of a Professor by them would take place on July 1 next. 



The Chairman declared, in the terms of the Bye-Laws, Chap. 4, 

 Article 2, there was a Vacancy in the Office of President through 

 the decease of His Grace the Duke of Northumberland, K.G., and a 

 vacancy in the Office of Visitor through the decease of Sir Alexander 

 Pedler, and at the next General Meeting, on July 1, the Vacancies 

 will be filled in accordance with the said Bye-Law. 



The Presents received since the last Meeting were laid on the 

 table, and the thanks of the Members returned for the same, viz. : — 



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27i« Secretary of State for India— Geological Survey : Records, Vol. XLYIII. 



Parts 3-4. 1917. 

 Memoirs of Department of Agriculture, Botanical Series, Vol. IX. No. 2. 



Nov. 1917. 8vo. 

 Agricultural Research Institute, Pusa. Journal for April, 1918. Svo. 



